Details
ALEXANDER ARCHIPENKO (1887-1964)
Birth of Venus
signed, dated and numbered on the back Archipenko 54 6/6-- polychromed bronze, granite and red turquoise
Height: 12¼ in. (31.1 cm.)
Cast in 1954; number six in an edition of six
Birth of Venus
signed, dated and numbered on the back Archipenko 54 6/6-- polychromed bronze, granite and red turquoise
Height: 12¼ in. (31.1 cm.)
Cast in 1954; number six in an edition of six
Provenance
Charles Linn, Croton-on-Hudson, New York; sale, Christie's, New York, November 6, 1979, lot 78 (acquired by the present owner)
Literature
A. Archipenko, Archipenko, Fifty Creative Years 1908-1958, New York, 1960, pl. 12 (another cast illustrated in color)
D. Karshan, Archipenko: International Visionary, Washington, D.C., 1969, no. 146 (another cast illustrated, p. 94)
D. Karshan, Archipenko Sculpture, Drawings and Prints 1908-1963, Danville, Kentucky, 1985, no. 86 (another cast illustrated in color,
p. 157)
D. Karshan, Archipenko: International Visionary, Washington, D.C., 1969, no. 146 (another cast illustrated, p. 94)
D. Karshan, Archipenko Sculpture, Drawings and Prints 1908-1963, Danville, Kentucky, 1985, no. 86 (another cast illustrated in color,
p. 157)